Artificial Intelligence for Optimisation and Demand Side Response of Built Environment Management

The project will be looking at the improvement of aspects of Mitie's existing Building Analytics architecture and at furthering its Demand Side Response capability. Both of these areas are seen as a key part of Mitie's energy strategy to deliver not only energy solutions, but also a fully-connected workplace. One of the two aspects that the project will look to enhance is Building Analytics core (BA). A big problem with BA is initial data acquisition and translation to onboard new client's data into the BA rules engine. The goal is to replace the manual element with mathematical techniques and self-learning algorithms. As an approach to this machine learning problem, Deep Learning techniques (Neural Networks) are going to be implemented in order to build an accurate model which responds well to the data with a minimun error, and to make the corresponding decisions in order to enhance the system's capabilities, as well as to ensure a statistical monitoring afterwards, to continuously improve the system's predictions. As prerequisites for implementing this method, I will be provided with significant historical data to train the algorithm and the company has a recurring need for predicting a behaviour in order to cut costs and create value.